CASEY 70-YEAR-OLD ROBERT
: BLACKERBY CAME HERE TO THE
OCHSNER FITNESS CENTER IN
ELMWOOD FOR HIS MORNING SWIM.
IT'S WHEN HIS LIFE NEARLY CAME
TO AN END.
>> I WOULD GO AND DO WORK OUT IN
THE WEIGHT ROOM.
LATER IN THE DAY, NO SPECIAL
TIME, I WOULD GO SWIMMING.
CASEY: AFTER TAKING A DIP LAST
DECEMBER.
>> I REMEMBER GETTING OUT OF THE
POOL AND SITTING ON THE SIDE FOR
A FEW SECONDS.
CASEY HE'S BEEN TOLD HE WENT TO
: THE STEAM ROOM.
WHEN HE CAME OUT HE COLLAPSED
BESIDE THE POOL AND PEOPLE
RUSHED TO HIS SIDE.
>> I WAS TOLD THAT I ONLY WENT
ABOUT MAYBE 10 SECONDS WITHOUT
OXYGEN, AND THEY PUT ON -- THEY
PUT OXYGEN ON ME THAT QUICK.
CASEY BYSTANDERS AND FITNESS
: CENTER STAFF DID CPR
PARAMEDICS CONTINUED ON THE WAY
TO OCHSNER HOSPITAL WHERE
EMERGENCY ROOM AND CARDIOLOGY
DOCTORS WERE WAITING.
JENKINS SAYS THEY PULLED OUT ALL
THE STOPS EVEN BASICALLY
FREEZING HIS BODY FOR 36 HOURS
>> AN ARTERY TO THE FRONT OF THE
HEART IS 100% BLOCKED.
CASEY JENKINS SAYS THEY PULLED
: OUT ALL THE STOPS EVEN
BASICALLY FREEZING HIS BODY FOR
36 HOURS
>> THEN YOU ASK THE QUESTION AND
YOU JUST WAIT AND YOU SEE -- DID
WE SAVE THIS MAN'S BRAIN, OR DID
WE NOT?
LO AND BEHOLD, MR. BLACKERBY
WOKE UP IMMEDIATELY.
CASEY: DOCTORS SAY THE'S WERE
ALL IN HIS FAVOR.
>> WE GOT A MAN WHO DOES NOT
LOOK HIS STATED AGE, AND THAT'S
BECAUSE HE TRIES TO STAY IN
SHAPE AND TAKES CARE OF HIMSELF.
CASEY: BLACKERBY A 70-YEAR-OLD
GRANDFATHER WHO LOVES SPORTS,
SCUBA DIVING AND THE OPEN WATER
IS SLOWING DOWN A BIT BUT IS
READY TO DIVE BACK INTO LIFE.
>> I CAN GO WALK, SWIM, RIDE
BICYCLES, THINGS LIKE THAT, DO
PYARD WORK.
JUST DON'T OVERDO IT.
CASEY: HE CREDITS EVERYONE WHO
HELPED THAT DAY WITH GIVING HIM


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